Children's Mental Health

DHS and its partners are improving mental health services to children by involving parents and youth in decisions, delivering more children's mental health services in the community, improving inter-agency cooperation and acknowledging the child's language and cultural heritage. DHS and other child-serving agencies are developing a system of care utilizing a wraparound model.

General Information

• AMH Children's Treatment Team (PDF)
• Chronology of Children's Mental Health Services
• 2007-2009 Children's Mental Health System Summary and Overview (PDF)
• FAQs about intensive community-based treatment and support services (PDF)
• MHO Children's System Coordinator and CMHP Children Mental Health Contacts (PDF)
• Process Guidelines for Fee-for-Service Access to ISA (PDF)
• Service Delivery Timelines (PDF)
• Statewide Children's Wraparound Initiative
• Updated Data on the Distribution of Mental Health Organization Revenue and Claims among Age Groups (Memo to CMHPs, Mental Health Organization Executive Directors, and Stakeholders for Children's System of Care)
• Youth Suicide Prevention Program

Collaborative Problem-Solving

• Collaborative Problem-Solving: Rethinking challenging kids

  • Video  
• Think Kids 

Children's Mental Health System Meetings

To view the statewide and local meetings for the Children's Mental Health System, please visit the Public Meetings page.

CSAC Policies

• Policy One: Level of Service Intensity Determination (PDF)
• Policy Two: System Structure and Functions (PDF)
• Diagram of Children's Mental Health Structure - Draft (PDF)
• Policy Three: Meaningful Family Involvement (PDF)
• Policy Four: Workforce Development in Cultural Competency (PDF)
• Policy Five: Outcomes and Performance Measures (PDF)
• Policy Six: Financing (PDF)

Focus Group (PDF files)

• Focus Group Request Memo
• Focus Group Participants 
• Focus Group Summary Memo 
• Focus Group Data Summary 
• Focus Group Priorities by Topic 
• Focus Group Results
• Focus Group Feedback
• Topic Themes by System Level of Intervention

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Families

• Medical coverage for kids
• Using State Data to Evaluate Children's Mental Health Services and Children's Mental Health Service Needs (Powerpoint presentation)
• (PSU/RRI CSCI Evaluation) Oregon Children's Mental Health System Change Initiative Implementation Evaluation (PDF)
• Youth Improvement in System of Care: A Guide to Empowerment (PDF)
• Information on Youth (PDF)
• Addictions and Mental Health (AMH) Staff Contacts (PDF)
• Community Care Coordinator Committee Meeting Schedule (PDF)
• MHO Children's Mental Health System Advisory Council Meeting Schedule (PDF)
• MHO Children's System Coordinator and CMHP Children Mental Health Contacts (PDF)
• Youth Suicide Prevention Program

Integrated Service Array (ISA)

• CSCI Level of Need Determination/CPMS Enrollment Decision Tree (PDF)
• Service Delivery Timelines (PDF)
• Frequently Asked Questions about the Level of Need Determination (LOND) and the Integrated Service Array Progress Review (ISAPR)/BERS-2 (PDF)

Memoranda of Understanding/Agreement

• Intra-departmental Letter of Agreement between Children, Adults and Families (CAF) and Office of Mental Health and Addiction Services (AMH) (PDF)
• Memorandum of Understanding between Oregon Department of Education (ODE) and the Office of Mental Health and Addiction Services (AMH) (PDF)

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Children and Youth Mental Health Oregon Administrative Rules (OARs) 

• Integrated Services and Supports Rule (ISSR) (AMH 2008 Rule Revision)
• Intensive Community-Based Treatment and Support Services (PDF)
• Licensed Children's Emergency Safety Intervention Specialist (CESIS) Rule (PDF)
• Standards for Children's Intensive Community-Based Treatment and Support Services (ICTS) Rule (PDF)
• Standards for Community Treatment Services for Children and Children's Outpatient Rule (PDF)
• Standards for Children's Intensive Mental Health Treatment Services (ITS) Rule (PDF)

Partnerships

• Medical coverage for kids
• National Alliance on Mental Illness (NAMI)
• Oregon Family Support Network
• Oregon Parent Training and Information Center
• Oregon Youth Authority Web site
• Children, Adults and Families (Child Welfare) Web site
• Oregon Department of Education Web site Oregon Commission on Children and Families

Resources

• Use of Medication in Treating Childhood and Adolescent Depression: Information for Patients and Families (PDF)
• Use of Medication in Treating Childhood and Adolescent Depression: Information for Physicians (PDF)
• SAMHSA Web site on Systems of Care

Outcomes/Evaluation

• 2009 Children's Mental Health Fact Sheet (PDF)
• (PSU/RRI CSCI Evaluation) Oregon Children's Mental Health System Change Initiative Implementation Evaluation (PDF)
• 2008 Oregon Youth Services Survey for Families (PDF)
• 2007 Oregon Youth Services Survey for Families (PDF)

Presentations

• Using State Data to Evaluate Children's Mental Health Services and Children's Mental Health Service Needs (Powerpoint presentation) (Powerpoint presentation) 

Reports 

• Hank Balderrama's report: Oregon State Children's Mental Health Initiative Initial Review of Cultural Competence: The full report including the executive summary and all attachments (PDF)  

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Additional reports (PDF files)

• Children's CPMS data ending Jan. 2010
• Children's CPMS data ending Dec. 2009
• Children's CPMS data ending Nov. 2009
• 2009 Child Welfare Mental Health Assessment and Administrative Services Utilization Report
• Children's CPMS data ending October 2009
• Children's Mental Health Utilization Report (April 1 2007 - March 31, 2008)

System of Care

• Building Systems of Care: A primer by Sheila Pires 
• Statewide Children's Wraparound Project (Executive Order) (PDF)
• Statewide Children's Wraparound Initiative 

Links

• Building Systems of Care: A primer by Sheila Pires
• Community Based Care Lead to Meaningful Improvement for Children and Youth with Serious Mental Health Need (SAMHSA News Release)
• Healthy Kids Learn Better 
• Medical coverage for kids
• NIDA for Teens: Tobacco Addiction
• Oregon Healthy Teen Data (1997 - 2009)
• Oregon Addictions and Mental Health-Approved Evidence-Based Practices
• Oregon Addictions and Mental Health EBPs - Children and Adolescents 
• Say it out loud - mental health resource 
• System of Care (SAMHSA)
• Think Kids 
• Youth Improvement in System of Care: A Guide to Empowerment (PDF) 

Young adults in transition

• NIDA for Teens: Tobacco Addiction
• Transition age Youth AMH Response Flow Chart (PDF)
• Transition Age Youth in Oregon: Considerations for a Statewide Model of Care (White Paper) (PDF)
• Oregon's Young Adults in Transitions: Progress Report: May 2009 (PDF)
• Early Psychosis and Early Assessment and Support Alliance (EASA)

To refer a client for transition age services please contact, Nancy Allen at (503) 945-5864 or Nancy.a.allen@state.or.us

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